Some time ago we received a request to answer some SEO related questions from a few users at the Romanian SEOPedia forum. We happily agreed to the challenge and did our best in helping them with advices and sharing our approach to SEO from a former Google Search Quality viewpoint.We believe these questions are beneficial to everyone who might have similar questions so we agreed to publish the outcome here:1. Which are the … [Read more...]
Search Quality Updates: SEO Hangout
April 5, 2012 By
Topics discussed in this HangoutAnchor text update Is it a spammy site? Methods of Link Analysis Unnatural links warnings in Google Webmaster Tools How to minimize attempts of Negative SEO SEO Outing is not immoral Guest Blogging and Guest Posting Better indexing of profile pages Google AuthorshipThanks to everyone for participating, specially to Manuel Lemos; Dan Petrovic and Ketan Raval for their participation.Consider that … [Read more...]
It’s a Ranking Factor: SEO Hangout
February 13, 2012 By
Topics discussed in this HangoutRanking Factors Nofollow Links Crawling and Indexing. Google+ and Robots.txt Spam Reports Google Penalties: Don't bring a machete when you need laser precision Buying Links and Negative SEO Penalized Domains and Reconsideration Requests Selling and Buying an established Domain or a BusinessThanks to Lyndon NA; Francisco Samuel and Sasch Mayer for their participation.Consider that our SEO … [Read more...]
Brands in Social Networks: SEO Hangout
January 19, 2012 By
Topics discussed in this HangoutSOPA: Outside of US; What is Black Hat and the ability to make the difference; Quality Raters Guidelines and common sense; Local domain raking and differences between US/English and International/non-English SERPs; Depending 99% from Google Search; Search Plus Your World (SPYW); Online Marketing Project Managers; Social Media Engagement and the Brand dilemma;Thanks for the participation Dan … [Read more...]
Pilot and Meet the Team: SEO Hangout
December 16, 2011 By
Topics discussed in this HangoutUsability issues to look out for using Analytics and finding your audience type; The ups and downs of Content Quality VS Advertising; Factors for the future and what Google will focus; The Quality of the traffic that arrives to your website; Measure of Authority and link quality VS link quantity Will Google drop links in favor of Social?; [Ariel complains about technical problem with … [Read more...]
Announcing the Search Quality Alliance
October 9, 2011 By
Six former Googlers from Search Quality team are joining together in the Search Quality Alliance to share their expertise and evangelize successful White Hat search engine optimization in the search industry. The Search Quality Alliance The Search Quality Alliance is a group of former Google employees from the Search Quality team. This team is responsible for the non-paid search in order to provide the best search results for Google's users. … [Read more...]